St. Catharine Activists Sweet Charm Home Depot Staff!

St. Catharine, Ontario, 2:00pm E.S.T. 26 May 1999 (FAN) - This afternoon, a handful of sweet-talking St. Catharine's activsts paid a visit to their local Home Depot store. The event began with product warning labels being applied to every available piece of merchandise with roots in an ancient rainforest.

Interfor products on Home Depot's lot in St.Catharine! (Photo courtesy FAN)

When approached by store staff, activists smiled sweetly and explained the service they were providing to Home Depot's customers. For some reason, they were allowed to proceed! As they labelled, they quietly began a Dead Rainforest Tour, gradually increasing in volume until a whole entourage of interested customers was learning about Home Depot's complicity with clearcut logging. Eventually, the store manager approached the group, demanding they leave. Respectfully and tactfully, he was informed they would be back to continue in their mission to convince Home Depot to go old-growth free.

Additional Interfor products on the St. Catharine Home Depot lot with product warning label.(Photo courtesy FAN)

The activists moved out into the parking lot, where every car present was decorated with a flyer describing Home Depot's support of the destruction of ancient rainforests. Activists in St. Catharine's report that, after a few hours, decorated cars still sport their eye-catching adornments.

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